Yasser Arafat

updated Tue. March 13, 2018

It was Trump who gave Abbas the honor of being the first Palestinian leader to get an invitation for a high profile visit to the White House since Yasser Arafat was called to Washington by Bill Clinton during the last peace process. "I can't remember in recent history that a Palestinian president met anÃÂ ...

Israel allowed him to return to the West Bank in 1995, and a year later Yasser Arafat appointed him mayor of Nablus. He entered public consciousness after the IDF killed his son, Jihad, during the Second Intifada. In the 2006 Palestinian elections, al-Aloul was elected to join the Palestinian LegislativeÃÂ ...

So again, according to this Statement the blame does not lie with the Palestinians, led for decades by the terroristYasser Arafat and now by someone who refused a peace deal in 2008 and has for nine years refused to negotiate. The Statement is radical in backing fully the Palestinian demand that theÃÂ ...

The chairman of the Yasser Arafat Institute, Fatah Central Committee member Nasser Al-Qudwa, said: "Our people are proud of Dalal [Al-Mughrabi], especially since this woman and sister was an outstanding pioneer of the Palestinian struggle and activity for the sake of the people and the homeland.

Al Arabiya has received rare photos of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during his childhood, showing him with his sister and his brother Fathi. It is yet unknown exactly when the photos were taken, but sometime after Arafat's mother, Zahwa, passed away leaving the young Palestinian to be raisedÃÂ ...

All of the street names that have not been approved, Adalah: the Legal Center for ArabMinority Rights in Israel reports, bear the names of Palestinian leaders, such as Mahmoud Darwish, Yasser Arafat, and Umm al-Fahm's former mayors. Attorney for Adalah Sawsan Zaher emphasizes that under IsraeliÃÂ ...

Abbas was repeating the mistake made by the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Arafat incomprehensibly thought he could play the conflict to his advantage but discovered it wasn't that simple. There is one thing the Palestinians cannot do anything to change and that isÃÂ ...

In contrast to Yasser Arafat, whose image among the Palestinian public was that of a modest leader who made do with very little, Mahmoud Abbas is perceived as a corrupt hedonist. Very recently, he purchased a new airplane for $50 million for his trips around the world. Several months ago, MahmoudÃÂ ...

Arabrights group Adallah has demanded that the Interior Ministry honor a request by United Arab List MK Yussuf Jubran that the Ministry approve the renaming of a street in the city after arch-terroristYasser Arafat. The group made its demand in a letter to Interior Minister Rabbi Aryeh Deri and StateÃÂ ...

It was once suggested in a national newspaper that Kevin Cahill -- from Kells in Meath -- playing for Nemo Rangers in Cork was like 'the Star of David flying from Yasser Arafat's house'. That was back in the early 2000s when Meath and Cork still had a simmering rivalry, though it is a long time since thatÃÂ ...

When Ariel Sharon was Israel's defense minister he ordered the Israeli army to shoot down a passenger plane if it was confirmed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was on board. Now, the Israeli author of the report has revealed the handwritten notes greenlighting the Israel Defense Force to shoot downÃÂ ...

On December 2, 2017, a faction named after "the martyr Nidal Al-'Amoudi"[1] within the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced the establishment of "The Martyr Yasser Arafat Base, the first Fatah movementmilitary base in the Gaza Strip." According to the announcement, the base is intended for the training ofÃÂ ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will visit the Yasser Arafat museum when he lands in Ramallah for a day's visit to pay his tributes to the tallest leader of the Palestinian National Movement who rests at the very same premises. The Yasser Arafat museum was opened to the public only recently asÃÂ ...

An Italian magazine published excerpts from former PLO leader Yasser Arafat's diaries this weekend, revealing evidence of a mutual non-aggression pact between the PLO and Italy. The excerpts also contain details about "lying to help former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi avoid fraud charges, hisÃÂ ...

He gave me their phone numbers, and then asked a stunning question: "Why don't you meet with Yasser Arafat?" He told me that it was possible to make phone calls between the two parts of Beirut, because the main phone company branch was in the western part of the city, under PLO control. He gave meÃÂ ...

RAMALLAH, February 6, 2018 (WAFA) - The Yasser Arafat Foundation said on Tuesday that it will sue any party that stole or claimed possession of any part of the notebooks of the late Palestinian leader. The Foundation specified the Italian L'Espresso magazine for publishing on Thursday what it claimedÃÂ ...

For example he explained that for Clinton's Camp David Summit in 2000 with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, each member in the US diplomacy contingency were all Jewish. The reasoning behind this was that it was the best way to ensure the deal that would hopefully beÃÂ ...

When Ariel Sharon was Israel's defense minister he ordered the Israeli army to shoot down a passenger plane if it was confirmed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was on board. Now, the Israeli author of the report has revealed the handwritten notes greenlighting the Israel Defense Force to shoot downÃÂ ...

On December 2, 2017, a faction named after "the martyr Nidal Al-'Amoudi"[1] within the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced the establishment of "The Martyr Yasser Arafat Base, the first Fatah movementmilitary base in the Gaza Strip." According to the announcement, the base is intended for the training ofÃÂ ...

An Italian magazine published excerpts from former PLO leader Yasser Arafat's diaries this weekend, revealing evidence of a mutual non-aggression pact between the PLO and Italy. The excerpts also contain details about "lying to help former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi avoid fraud charges, hisÃÂ ...

He gave me their phone numbers, and then asked a stunning question: "Why don't you meet with Yasser Arafat?" He told me that it was possible to make phone calls between the two parts of Beirut, because the main phone company branch was in the western part of the city, under PLO control. He gave meÃÂ ...

It also strongly suggests that Israel used radiation poisoning to kill Yasser Arafat, the long-time Palestinian leader an act its officials have consistently denied. Mr Bergman writes that Mr Arafat's death in 2004 fit a pattern and had advocates. But he steps back from flatly asserting what happened, saying thatÃÂ ...

In a detailed feature in US based newspaper, the New York Times, author Ronen Bergman claims that Israel planned several assassination attempts on Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat. The article reveals that former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon tried several times toÃÂ ...

Israeli agents planted explosives in a sports stadium in a plan to kill Yasser Arafat and had several other opportunities to assassinate the Palestinian president, according to a new book. The account is likely to revive suspicions that Arafat, who died of a mysterious illness in November 2004, was poisoned.

The radar on the F-15s picked up the blip of the transport plane, a DHC-5 Buffalo, 370 miles into Mediterranean airspace. The fighters closed rapidly. They read the tail number, saw the blue-and-brown markings. They were positive they'd found the right plane. The lead pilot keyed his radio. "Do we haveÃÂ ...

Perhaps the best example of her extremism was repeating the big lie that IsraelmurderedYasser Arafat. Before getting to the predictable bashing of the Trump Administration, Erekat labeled US support for Israel "emblematic of everything that is wrong with the United States." She praised the Black LivesÃÂ ...

Supporters of the Fatah movement hold up a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a rally in Gaza City on December 31, 2017, marking the 53rd anniversary of the creation of the political party. Mahmud Hams / AFP. When US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital ofÃÂ ...

The Palestinian intelligence Service detained Mohamed al-Dayya, a Brigadier General in the National Security Service and the personal escort of the late President Yasser Arafat. According to local and media sources, the Palestinian Authority's Intelligence Service arrested al-Dayya several days ago inÃÂ ...

In March 2017, Israel's Interior Minister Aryeh Deri ordered the city council of Jatt, an Arab town in Israel, to remove street signs named after late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said: "We cannot have streets named after Israel's enemies within the state ofÃÂ ...

September 19, 1994 - Qorei resigns as economy minister in a feud with Yasser Arafat, but later resumes his duties. September 1995 - During a negotiating session with Israeli leaders, Qorei becomes ill and is hospitalized overnight. January 20, 1996 - The Palestinian Legislative Council is established, withÃÂ ...